On 03.04.2017 11:07 AM, Recliner wrote:
Someone Somewhere wrote:
On 02/04/2017 18:26, wrote:
Does that mean at the time of my visit it was no longer a funicular
but a very long inclined lift but now it is a funicular again?
Given those cars seem to be articulated as well, when does a funicular
become a funicular and stop being a cable hauled railway?
The cars aren't articulated in a conventional sense. They seem to have a
variable tilt mechanism (covered by the bellows) to keep the floor
horizontal, as the angle of the funicular varies markedly. Perhaps that had
failed in the missing car, and it was off being repaired. Rather than shut
the funicular altogether, they ingeniously kept it running with just one
car, using perhaps the undercarriage of the missing car with added weights
for balance?
Do they even need added weights for balance? (Genuine question.) I presume
there is already allowance for imbalance given both cars are never going to
be exactly equally weighted - maybe the motors just had to work a little
harder for a while.